Privacy Policy
Updated January 4th, 2023
Our Privacy Policy has been developed as an extension of our commitment to combine quality products and services with integrity in dealing with users. The Policy is designed to assist you in the understanding of how we collect, use and protect the personal information provided to us www.graniteshoresgroup.com only collects and uses personal data we need to be able to deliver our world-class products and services (our “Services). The personal data we collect includes information such as the following:
Name
Address
Telephone number
Email address
Other data that could directly or indirectly identify you.
This policy will describe how and what data we collect, and how and why we use your personal data. It also describes options for you to access, update or otherwise take control of your personal data.
If you ever have any questions about our practices or any of your rights you may reach out to our Data Protection Officer (“DPO”) at graniteshoresgroup@gmail.com
What Information Do We Collect?
We collect personal information so we can provide the best possible Service. The majority of what you would most likely consider personal data is collected directly from you. We generally collect three specific types of information: (1) personal information you actively choose to disclose (“Active Information”) (2) information collected, in a way not visible to you, and collected based on your personal browsing or usage (“Individual Passive Information”); and (3) information collected, in a way not visible to you, and collected based on an aggregate anonymous basis as you and other users browse our site (“Aggregate Passive Information”).
1. Active Information: Active information is information you personally have to provide to use, like your name, email address, and phone number. We use secure socket layer (SSL) encryption to protect the transmission of the information you submit to us when you use our secure online forms. The information you provide to us is stored securely.
A. Registration as an affiliate or Consultant: When you register to become an affiliate authorized to promote our products or services, we will collect Personally Identifiable Information (such as name, address, email address, and telephone number). This Personally Identifiable Information is securely stored and may be accessed on our website. You are assigned an identification number and select your own password – both are needed to enter the Site and to access your Contact Information. Please safeguard your password in a secure location as we are not responsible for breaches into the system when access is willingly provided.
B. Ordering or purchasing a product or service: When you place an order for products or services, we collect Personally Identifiable Information (such as name, contact and billing information, credit card, and other transactional information). We use this information to deliver your order, process payment, and to communicate the status of your order.
C. Credit Card Storage: Credit card information collected for product or Service orders is used only to process payment for the transaction and is not retained on our Site. In order to maintain the highest security for our customers’ credit card information, www.v1leads.com does not save, collect or maintain any credit card information on its servers. All credit card payments are processed through independent third party gateways with the highest security levels. Any subscriptions allowing for a monthly re-billing will have payment information stored on a secure third party server. You may voluntarily elect to securely store multiple credit cards to be used for product orders.
D. Surveys, Newsletters and Promotions: You may voluntarily provide Personally Identifiable Information to complete surveys, questionnaires or to participate in user polls. You may also provide this information to receive our world-class newsletters. We use this information to improve our products and services and to ensure that we’re providing accurate disclosures. We may also use your Personally Identifiable Information to provide you newsletters and other marketing information that coincide with your preferences. You may customize your marketing preferences, or let us know if you do not wish to receive any promotional materials, by adjusting your Subscriptions & Email options on the Site.
E. Additional Account Information: In addition to the information that you specifically provide, www.v1leads.com also collects information related to the use of our Services that may not be readily apparent to you, such as your affiliate ID or account number, when certain products expire, and customer services requests and notes detailing what was asked for and how we responded.
2. Individual Passive Information: Individual Passive Information is information we gather by placing cookies or tracking pixels on your computer.
A. Cookies and tracking technology: as with most websites, we track browsing behaviors, links clicked, items purchased, device type, and various data related to analytics about how you use an interact with our websites and Services. This tracking is done with cookies and or tracking pixels that allows us to provide you with more relevant product offerings, a better experience with our sites, and to collect, analyze and improve the performance of our Services. We may also collect your location or IP address so we can personalize our Services to you. We may use information gathered to ensure advertisements or offers made to you match your usage and or areas of interest.
B. Supplemented Data: we may receive data about you from other sources, including publicly available databases or third parties whom we have purchased data from, or from your social media profiles. If we receive this supplemented data we may combine it with information we already have about you so that we can update, expand and optimize the accuracy of our records. It may also be used to identify specific products or services that may be of interest to you. If you provide us personal information about others, or if others give us information about you, we will only use that information for the specific reason it was provided to us. If you choose to make comments on our webpages or blogs using your social media profile data shared by the social network, like your name and picture, may automatically be pulled onto the post.
3. Aggregate Passive Information: This refers to information that does not, by itself, identify you as a specific individual. Such information would include the Uniform Resource Locator (“URL”) of the website that referred you to our Site, your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address (a number automatically assigned to your computer whenever you surf the web), your operating system and browser type, and any search terms that you enter on our Site. Our web server aggregates this information in order to monitor the level of activity on our Site, evaluate its effectiveness, and improve the content or our Site in order to make your visit an easy and enjoyable experience. We may collect, compile, store, publish, promote, report, or otherwise disclose or use any Aggregate Information, provided that such information does not personally identify you. We do not correlate any Personally Identifiable Information with the Aggregate Information that we collect on our Site. If we do correlate any Aggregate Information to you, it will be protected like any other Personally Identifiable Information under this Privacy Statement.
What is a Cookie? Cookies are a feature of web browser software that allows web servers to recognize the computer used to access a site. They are small pieces of data stored by a user’s browser to simplify subsequent interactions with the site. This makes it easier for a user to move from site to site and to complete transactions over the Internet. Cookies should make your online experience easier and more personalized. Our site utilizes cookies to collect information about how our site is used. Passive Information gathered may include the date and time of visits, the site pages viewed, time spent at our site, the sites visited just before and just after visiting our site. If you do not wish to transmit “cookie” information about yourself, you may turn off the cookie function in your web browser. Our site’s servers also automatically identify your computer by its Internet Protocol address, which is a unique string of numbers that are assigned to your computer by your Internet Service Provider. The IP address may be used to address problems with our server or to gather broad demographic information about our users. We passively collect your IP Address. You can control the way cookies are placed by utilizing settings in your browser or third-party tools, such as Disconnect, Ghostery and others.
How Do We Use the Information Collected? www.v1chatbots.com believes it is important to minimize the amount of data collected as well as limiting its use to only the purpose you give it to us for. We do this so we are able to provide you with the best Services delivery and experience possible, to interact with you regarding your purchases and experiences with www.v1chatbots.com, as well as where required for legal, compliance or other lawful purposes.
Broadly speaking, persons we employ directly, or as contractors or agents at our direction use Active Information for purposes of administering our business activities, providing customer support and making available other products or services we think might be of interest to our users. We may use the Active Information or Passive Information you provide to contact you about various changes to our site, new services, features or products we offer. If at any time you do not wish to receive such information, you may “opt-out” of doing so by adjusting your email settings in the back office of the website, by opting out of any email received, or by contacting customer support and asking to have your contact settings changed. We use Passive Information to gather information about our users in general and to enhance our site to make it easier, faster and friendlier for users. Additionally, cookies help us better understand the usage pattern of the people that visit our site, which helps us improve our services. Passive Information may result in your viewing of particular advertising based on your user habits.
Sharing Information with Advertisers or Other Third Parties: We may disclose anonymous information about user habits to advertisers on our site. The parties who perform services for us (credit card processors, merchant bank, Internet Service Provider) may also have access to your information in performing such services. We may also share your personal data with affiliated companies within our corporate family, with third parties with which we have a referral relationship with. Data we may share would include your name, email address, and phone number. However, we only provide the personal data necessary for the third party to provide their services as requested or needed on our behalf. Should we buy or sell assets of our company, another company may need to review our company’s assets, which might include your information, to make business decisions as to whether to acquire such assets.
Sharing Information with the Government or As Otherwise Required by Law: We may be required by subpoena, law or government agency to disclose both Active and Passive Information you have provided to us. We will disclose any information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties as we, in our sole discretion, believe appropriate to respond to claims or legal processes.
How Do We Secure Active Information and Passive Information? We secure your personal information submitted by you by using reasonable efforts to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, or accidental loss of Active and Passive Information. Individual postings on this site and other communications to our office via email or standard mail may not be secure unless we advise you that security measures are in place prior to your submission of information. Therefore, if you choose to communicate with us through these means, you are assuming the risk of doing so and we respectfully request that you do not send or post sensitive information through these means.
Accessing and Correcting Your Information: We take necessary measures to ensure that any Personally Identifiable Information we collect on our Site is accurate, current, complete, and reliable for its intended use. If you wish to update or otherwise correct Personally Identifiable Information provided to us, you may edit your information online by signing into your account and visiting the settings tab. You can also contact customer support for assistance in changing your information.
Protecting Your Information: We acknowledge your trust and are committed to take the necessary steps to protect Personally Identifiable Information provided from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access. We employ physical, electronic, and managerial processes to safeguard and secure your information. It is your responsibility to safeguard the password you use to access our Site and to promptly advise us if you ever suspect that your password has been compromised. We strongly encourage you to change your password regularly to prevent unauthorized access. Because your identification number and password are specific to you, you acknowledge sole responsibility for any and all use of our Site conducted with your identification number and password.
Links to Other Websites: You might be able to access other websites through our site via hyperlinks. When you do so, you are subjecting yourself to their privacy policies and data collection. Please read the privacy policies of those sites to ensure you agree with the terms before using such sites.
Links to third-party websites may be provided solely for your information and convenience or to provide additional shopping for various other goods and services through our Merchant and Services Partners. If you use these links, you will leave our Site. This Privacy Statement does not cover the information practices of those websites nor do we control their content or privacy policies. We suggest that you carefully review the privacy policies of each site you visit.
Age restrictions.
Our Services are available for purchase only for those over the age of 18. Our Services are not targeted to, intended to be consumed by or designed to entice individuals under the age of 18. If you know of or have reason to believe anyone under the age of 18 has provided us with any personal data, please contact us. We take special care to protect the privacy needs of children and encourage parents to be an active participant in their child’s online activities. Our Site does not target and is not intended for children under the age of 18, and we will not knowingly collect Personally Identifiable Information from Children. If we discover personal data from a child through our site, we will eliminate that data. You may learn more about protecting children’s privacy online by visiting: http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/tech/tec08.shtm.
Targeted advertisements. Targeted ads or interest-based offers may be presented to you based on your activities on our webpages, and other websites, and based on the products you currently own. These offers will display as varying product banners presented to you while browsing. We also partner with third parties to manage our advertising on our webpages and other websites. Our third party partners may use technologies such as cookies to gather information such activities in order to provide you with advertising based upon your browsing activities and interests, and to measure advertising effectiveness.
Third-party websites. Our website and our mobile applications contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of third-party sites. Please read the privacy policy of any website you visit.
How you can access, update or delete your data.
To easily access, view, update, delete or port your personal data (where available), or to update your subscription preferences, please sign into your Account and visit “Account Settings.” If you make a request to delete your personal data and that data is necessary for the products or services you have purchased, the request will be honored only to the extent it is no longer necessary for any Services purchased or required for our legitimate business purposes or legal or contractual record keeping requirements.
If you are unable for any reason to access your Account Settings or our Privacy Center, you may also contact us by one of the methods described in the “Contact Us” section below or by contacting customer support.
How we secure, store and retain your data.
We follow generally accepted standards to store and protect the personal data we collect, both during transmission and once received and stored, including utilization of encryption where appropriate. We retain personal data only for as long as necessary to provide the Services you have requested and thereafter for a variety of legitimate legal or business purposes. These might include retention periods:
mandated by law, contract or similar obligations applicable to our business operations;
for preserving, resolving, defending or enforcing our legal/contractual rights; or
needed to maintain adequate and accurate business and financial records.
If you have any questions about the security or retention of your personal data, you can contact us at www.v1leads.com
‘Do Not Track’ notifications.
Some browsers allow you to automatically notify websites you visit not to track you using a “Do Not Track” signal. There is no consensus among industry participants as to what “Do Not Track” means in this context. Like many websites and online services, we currently do not alter our practices when we receive a “Do Not Track” signal from a visitor’s browser. To find out more about “Do Not Track,” you may wish to visit www.allaboutdnt.com.
Changes in our Privacy Policy.
We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes to this Privacy Policy and any other places we deem appropriate, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page, at least thirty (30) days prior to the implementation of the changes.